Junior
Works from written instructions and checks in often. Right when somebody on your team can review the output daily.
We are still building the bench for this role, so we give you a timeline before the search starts.
Hire a software engineer
Takes a ticket, asks the right question, and opens a reviewable pull request.
- Junior$4,160 a month
- Mid$5,600 a month
- Senior$7,200 a month
What they do on your team
Taken from the placements we run today.
- Picks up tickets and ships them behind your review process
- Writes the tests your CI runs
- Reviews other pull requests instead of only writing code
- Asks the clarifying question before building the wrong thing
- Leaves the on-call runbook better than they found it
What it costs: Software engineer
Full time, your hours, billed monthly. The same figure wherever the specialist lives.
Software engineer against a US hireMid
Works out what to do without written instructions and reviews other people's work. The level most placements start at.
Senior
Owns a process end to end, leads two or three others and talks to your clients. Right when your team has no time to manage the seat.
Questions about this role
What stacks do you have on the bench?
TypeScript on both ends, React, Node, Python and Laravel are the ones we can usually fill. Go, Elixir and anything on mobile are thin and we say so in the first call rather than at the shortlist.
Will they work in our repo and our review process?
Yes. They take tickets from your board, open pull requests against your branch rules and get reviewed like anyone else. The assessment deliberately includes reviewing somebody else code, because a developer who only writes is half a hire.
Can they be on call?
Inside their own working day, yes, and that already covers most of the US day. A real overnight rotation is a different arrangement and we would rather talk it through than bolt it onto a normal placement.
Who employs the specialist?
Tribe does. They are contracted through us in their own country, and you sign one agreement with Tribe. You get a worker on your team without opening an entity or running foreign payroll.
What happens if the fit is wrong?
Tell us inside the first month and we shortlist again. The replacement costs nothing and we stop billing the placement that did not work from the day you tell us. We would rather swap once than lose the account.
Can I interview before I commit?
Yes. You see two or three profiles with their work samples, you interview the ones you want, and you decide. Nothing starts until you pick someone.
Get software engineer profiles this week
Tell us what the first week looks like. Two or three profiles come back inside five business days, each with the work sample behind the scorecard.